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A space captain accidentally freezes themselves for two thousand years, finding themselves in an unfamiliar galaxy. Fortunately, there's always someone who needs cargo delivered.
Starstruck Vagabond is a adventure, story rich and life sim game
developed by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
and published by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw and Second Wind.
Released on May 24th 2024 is available in English only on Windows.
It has received 515 reviews of which 455 were positive and 60 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
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- OS *: Windows Vista or greater
- Processor: 2 Ghz
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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Now, before I go on to talk about my issues with the game, I will say I overall enjoyed my time with the game. The core loop of simply delivering packages was a great "turn-your-brain-off" distraction after a particularly long day. Having each system in the map get checked off after completing the assignments was nice and fulfilling, sometimes pushing me to go "just one more system...". For a podcast-able game, I never once podcasted(?) just because the tracks by the BPM composers was too fitting to pass up. The characters I came across in my first playthrough were fun to interact with, especially once you have a full crew assembled and they start interacting with each other. Also NYUFFLES Now then, There are many systems in the game which could vastly do with QoL improvements. First would be the crew system. To start, you can only get 5 of the 9 possible companions in the game on your first run. I struggle to think of a reason for restricting your party. Considering that some characters have passives of varying degrees of usefulness, getting a character you don't need or want can hurt your drive to continue on. Even a rotating party system would have been alright if the concern revolved around having too many people in the crew. This is made more frustrating to deal with due to the fact that there is some degree of RNG required in order to run into certain characters. Rather than providing all the story and interactions the game has to offer upfront, it forces multiple playthroughs to see all the characters stories, if you can manage to mitigate some of the RNG in finding them. This is ok in rogue-likes where your runs are an hour max. However, when your "run" is tens of hours like in this game, it is very much de-incentivizing to continue past the ending. It's such a shame too because with how much time and effort put into giving these characters life, some of them will never be seen or even known about because you simply won't encounter them in a single playthrough. Romances, for the waifu/husbando fans out there, is present but unfortunately tied to a "Personality" system. Rather than have a complex dialogue tree, which would understandably be a lot of work, it's kind of pre-chosen based the personality you choose for your character at the start. It appears that it largely affects who you can romance. Tieing in to the previous point, if you manage to find a character you might be interested in romancing, you better hope you have the right personality that meshes well with them. The world is cute at first but quickly reveals itself to be highly repetitive and empty. I could easily be convinced that there's less than 100 living beings in this universe with how empty it is. While it's understandable that designing that many rando NPCs you never talk to is pointless, it would certainly give some much-needed life to the universe. All that exists in Civilized planets are a portion of the pool of potential Essential Shops that are needed either for crew requests, side missions, or main missions. The uncivilized planets are just rocks and plants with little variety beyond crashed ship parts or the slimes sliming around. I would personally be more interested in seeing a hand-crafted universe in a single playthrough rather than a procedural universe where everything is basically the same and getting little out of it. Progression is what needs the biggest revamp. In a given system, there's 3 missions (drawn from the game's larger pool of missions) that you can complete. Sometimes you'll get an easy one like flying through a cloud and there's one easily available. However, a pair of conflicting missions, boarding derelicts and answering distress calls, can get easily tiresome if you have one of the two as missions. This is because you'll detect one of the two by RNG, which you means it's possible to have a board derelict mission but constantly be bothered by distress calls, resulting in you flying back and forth hoping to find it. A toggle to disable or auto-turn the one you don't need would be immensely welcome. And have mercy if you get saddled with a "Get rid of slimes" distress call because you'll have to chase down these slimes (adorably named Zoobs) while dealing with a slowdown caused by their leftovers. Even by the end of the game, this is such a chore. I didn't feel any sort of progression in getting better at these tasks. Instead of lasering multiple rocks in a row, you stay lasering a single rock at a time. Instead of having "Zoob-immune" shoes to walk normally through their remains, you have to endure the slow-down and hope they come towards you. Although Yahtzee has identified and implemented some QoL like running and PDA detectors, there is far more work to be done. Despite these reasons (and more), I am satisfied with my purchase of SSV. After a long work day and feeling just unable to engage with something like BG3 or Elden Ring, I'm glad I was able to turn to SSV to just unwind from the day. In it's current state, however, I don't see myself revisiting it in the near future. Regarding my listed issues, it is worth noting that Yahtzee did reflect in his post-mort video about the need for playtesters, which would have revealed a majority of my frustrations with the game. If Yahtzee comes back for an overhaul 2.0, I could see new life being breathed into this game. Understandably, this is a bit more a side thing and he's already looking at other projects so realistically, this might be it. Fair enough, sometimes, we just feel the need to move on, leaving behind what we know in favor of experimenting and seeing what lies just a little further ahead.
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Nitpick/feature creep/yeah that's the game or design choice: [*]Switching back to hands while welding scrap on derelicts to pick up credits is annoying, just walk over them. [*]Having a little 3x3 pixel with 2 pixels between each square mini map of cities would be nice, see where each thing is based on a 1 pixel color in the 3x3 square. Also with a key. Should have to be explored first to be fair. Or it exists and I didn't see it. [*]REALLY want somewhere to place souvenirs. Maybe a spot on your planet. The ship is the only place that stuff stays forever. All other planets seem randomly generated so yes nothing set down should stay, but your planet seems to stay put. (OK after beating the game I see what's happening here now. But still, having some before getting to that point and storing them is annoying.) [*]Leaving the room while speeding through the ship, crewmates will throw up the button to talk but it goes away once you leave the room. Be nice if it stayed the full length so you can turn around and hear them. [*]Opening the fuel tank to release some residue is way too easy to leave open and let way more fuel go than intended. It'd be nice if it was HOLD to crack open instead, whatever it is now isn't right. But the risk is the point so that's fair. [*]Arriving anywhere plays sounds like the computer is talking to you in the background but you're on the cockpit screen. Just turns into a normal noise after a while but it still seems off. [*]Eating on derelicts is very non-intuitive. Seems in place to make sure you have stamina to keep working, very welcome, but how can you eat in space? Also be nice if they could pass up a biscuit when cleaning someone's redweed but, hey, should of seen my low stamina before leaving, fair. [*]Having a key for what the icons on the system map mean to start. I think it IS in the menu but kinda weird getting use to it. [*]Upgrading cargo hold or fuel tanks, for example, has the platform drop off anything held in there, which is nice but very confusing. Especially when it drops off your only air cyclers and you wonder what's going on with these 2 free air cyclers and when you get back on board you're suffocating. [*]The back/consume button is the same as the run button so each time you run you'll switch between your last tool and your hands. I don't think it can be fixed in controls [*]The diagnoses screen should show how many red weeds are on the ship, or at least that there are some. [*]Be nice if it became "hit or shoot down junk balls" after you get weapons. They have the same end. [*]Wish we could reject crew quests. Go into the crew tab and reject it from there. Look, I don't want to paint my ship, OK? Lose friendship progress is very fair for it. Bugs: [*]Tried leaving Magu on the ship and not giving kisses until I'd run out of air and was able to get back in soon after it started eating away at my stamina. Then got into a cutscene with no Magu in the cockpit where the game thought she was. [*]There can be a red weed under the texture for the cockpit glass, the airlock hatch, and the solar dome. [*]Very annoying to have a weld point under the client on certain distress calls. Also just above the air cycler also hides it. [*]Soft locked coming down too far left on the airlock ladder and stuck behind the cargo console, have to go back up, move right, then back down ladder. [*]On a Kasandra relationship up scene, talking about gloating that she messed up, you say "an mistake" seemingly instead of "a mistake." [*]Pretty annoying that telekenessing barrels off the cargo hold goes half a square off and can't be moved after. Also that any waste barrel can't be moved on derelicts after dropping them, some times trapping you on the cargo lift, and maybe on the derelict if done more incorrectly. [*]Put a rock on cargo platform, welded to reveal a clingtite, went back to ship and it became a rock again, welded again, and it became raw fuel. Deizz II [which I notice later is probably not helpful if they all are random/based on seed]. [*]Probably should stop Crewmates from standing on the refinery platform. Now it is funny to send Magu into the furnace but still. [*]Finding a PDA in a distress call counted as finding a PDA in a derelict in the Souze sector [which I notice later is probably not helpful if they all are random/based on seed]. [*]I was romanced by the 3 crew members in a row; Hole, Sarge, Kas , turned down first two and said yes to the third. I had postcards on the most southern tiles in the captains quarters and when it started to fade to black and push the models closer it had me pick up a post card and start to fill the bar to chuck it and was still holding it after fading back in. It's probably just made to put out your hand with a shortcut to have if like you're holding the button which made it work as intended I guess. Way too funny a bug in that moment. AS OF 1.1.2: [*]Putting down a box and then starting to turn makes the box drop at the new direction which is usually what way you wanted to walk towards. [*] Derelicts have a good 75% chance to be off set about half a tile to the right, which CAN lose you freight you put on the platform as you leave. Lost a gas can, could of lost an upgrade unit. I've had waste barrels move and cover the panel to bring me back to the ship since you can't move them [Apparently this was fixed in 1.1.3, thank you]. [*]The Air Cycle diagnostic shows 10 plants photosyntesizing in a NG+ when I don't even have a hydroponics bay. GUSH: [*]Continuity of damage is amazing. The weld spot on the hull is where it's losing air inside. The warp rings can be seen off kilter outside the ship while broken inside. [*]An asteroid hitting a fuel tank will empty it a bit [*]Weird the ship is just actually segments instead of one uni-body piece, but it's in space and that actually wouldn't matter. There's more I know I loved but didn't write them down.
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Considering that Yahtzee's last game was about collecting and violating hats, this is a massive improvement. I'm looking forward to his next game that will be coming out in the next 7 - 11 years.
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Fun lil romp around the galaxy delivering boxes. It's basically a few minigames thrown together with a very light story and systems management. Not hard, not deep, but surprisingly chill and I've enjoyed it winding down in the evening with something tasty to drink and my Steam Deck. The UI scale is pretty large, but it's not game breaking, mostly a pain for popups during ship emergencies covering up what you're doing, and the view is zoomed in super high so exploring cities is an adventure in walking slowly all over just to see if you missed a building since there's no minimap. Overall though, it's a fun lil game and I do enjoy anything that lets me feel like I'm doing starship maintenance because I am a weirdo.
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Admittedly I mostly bought the game because I like his books and figured he'd have a fresh take on games seeing his usual points of critique in the reviews. However, I must say this is a tough sell. I'd give it a neutral thumb if I could. There are some great nuggets of writing there but the gameplay is not particularly compelling. You'll be moving crates and fixing your ship the majority of the time, since this is required to unlock new sectors you need to go to. I can understand wanting to convey this feeling of mundane to contrast it with the general premise, to show that even in the distant future with great things looming on the horizon you cannot escape responsibility and tedium, but it does not necessarily make for a fun game experience. If you completely ignore the side quests and just try to beeline for the story there is unfortunately not that much. Prelude, setting up the game in the future and then some unveiling of the main story as you pick up companions in small chapters and then the finale. I'd wager you could complete the game in maybe 4-5 hours then. Which is in itself fine but for that the story is not tight enough for me. If you want to complete the sidequests then you can add around 30-40 hours of crossing off items on a checklist. I read in another review that Yahtzee has a soft spot for 'podcast games' where you can play and do something on the side - though I would expect more from someone who is often so outspoken about how games leave potential behind. I think ultimately I just expected more from an accomplished writer and critic. More than just a nice little story with some well written passages steeped in a mire of tedious gameplay that feels like it's wasting your time a lot. It comes down to what you expect. If you expect a decent story you can power through in a few hours, then this can be picked up and enjoyed. If you expect a game that keeps you mindlessly busy for countless hours while you watch YouTube videos or listen to podcasts in the side, then this can be picked up and enjoyed. If you're somewhere in the middle and would like a tight story with gameplay that adds to it, it's a hard sell.
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Starstruck Vagabond is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
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Starstruck Vagabond received 455 positive votes out of a total of 515 achieving a rating of 8.25.
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Starstruck Vagabond was developed by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw and published by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw and Second Wind.
Starstruck Vagabond is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Starstruck Vagabond is not playable on MacOS.
Starstruck Vagabond is not playable on Linux.
Starstruck Vagabond is a single-player game.
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Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
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Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw,
Second Wind
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24 May 2024
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